Dual tasking and stuttering: from the laboratory to the clinic.

Purpose: The aim of the three studies in this article was to develop a way to include dual tasking in speech restructuring treatment for persons who stutter (PWS). It is thought that this may help clients maintain the benefits of treatment in the real world, where attentional resources are frequently diverted away from controlling fluency by the demands of other tasks.

Method: In Part 1, 17 PWS performed a story-telling task and a computer semantic task simultaneously.